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IBM Data and AI Ideas Portal for Customers


This portal is to open public enhancement requests against products and services offered by the IBM Data & AI organization. To view all of your ideas submitted to IBM, create and manage groups of Ideas, or create an idea explicitly set to be either visible by all (public) or visible only to you and IBM (private), use the IBM Unified Ideas Portal (https://ideas.ibm.com).


Shape the future of IBM!

We invite you to shape the future of IBM, including product roadmaps, by submitting ideas that matter to you the most. Here's how it works:


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Start by searching and reviewing ideas and requests to enhance a product or service. Take a look at ideas others have posted, and add a comment, vote, or subscribe to updates on them if they matter to you. If you can't find what you are looking for,


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Post ideas and requests to enhance a product or service. Take a look at ideas others have posted and upvote them if they matter to you,

  1. Post an idea

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  3. Get feedback from the IBM team to refine your idea


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Welcome to the IBM Ideas Portal (https://www.ibm.com/ideas) - Use this site to find out additional information and details about the IBM Ideas process and statuses.

IBM Unified Ideas Portal (https://ideas.ibm.com) - Use this site to view all of your ideas, create new ideas for any IBM product, or search for ideas across all of IBM.

ideasibm@us.ibm.com - Use this email to suggest enhancements to the Ideas process or request help from IBM for submitting your Ideas.

IBM Employees should enter Ideas at https://ideas.ibm.com


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Cognos Analytics

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REST API: Content Ancestors

Objects returned by /api/v1/modules include an ancestors object, making it simple to identify the location of the data module. Please provide an ancestors object for objects returned by /api/v1/modules/<storeID>, /api/v1/content/<storeID&...
6 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Submitted

Watermark in Dashboarding

We need to distinghish Dashbaords build by end users and dashbaords build by BI-Team (validated) For this it would be a good practise to add a "Watermark" option which can be added (based on security groups) to the dashbaords.
about 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Access to Content Store Data

Ultimate Software takes user requests for future development actions. The largest request we have by far is the ability for a BI administrator to be able to report on how their content is secured at this time. Currently, for auditing purposes, cus...
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Formatting of KPI and summary visualizations i dashboards

I would like to be able to format the number and not just the title of Summary and KPI visualizations. I would like to change the size and the color. I know I can change the color of a summary KPI but it is limitted colors, and I am today not able...
about 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

Our customers want to be able to generate report output in PDF/A (archive) format.

Within Cognos the available report format options are the following: https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/cognos-analytics/12.0.0?topic=cubes-report-formats Generate CSV Output Generate PDF Output Generate XLS Output Generate XML Output Within the PDF outp...
6 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Submitted

Connecting to multiple Snowflake databases inside same Snowflake warehouse

Currently when a Snowflake datasource connection is created, it is mandatory to provide 1 warehouse and 1 database detail. But we would like to connect to multiple databases within the warehouse, in this way we can avoid creating multiple connecti...
11 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 0 Not under consideration

Allow Dashboard function setting individually on packages

The authorization for the "Dashboard" function can currently only be authorized at the top level in Cognos Administration under Security/Functions. However, we also need the ability to allow assignment individually to packages, as some users shoul...
about 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

No way to delete all saved reports at once

There is no way to remove report versions other than deleting them on every report.
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Ability to migrate Dynamic Cubes between environments

Currently, it is not possible to migrate a Dynamic Cube from a Development / Test environment to a Production environment (other than Package and associated content). The cube model is attached to the data source, which is likely the reason this f...
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Scheduling reports on a 4/4/5 or 4/5/4 week period basis in Cognos Analytics

We need the ability to schedule reports/ report views & jobs etc. to run a 4/4/5 week period basis, so for example to schedule a report to start on say January 1st 2021 then every 4 weeks, then again in 4 weeks, and then in 5 weeks time, and r...
about 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration